Batman #20

Clayton Marchetti built Batman #20, including the vintage Batmobile.

Off to the Bifrost

Grantmasters built Off to the Bifrost.

Batman #9

Monsterbrick built Batman #9 as part of the Comic Bricks collaboration.

Wonder Woman vs. Ares

Julius No built Wonder Woman vs. Ares.

Comic Bricks

Hi all,
First up, I just wanted to apologize for my six month hiatus. I've been blogging about LEGO for nine years now, and from time to time I've just gotten a bit run down and distracted from my family of blogs. However, in the meantime, I'm constantly going through Flickr, Brickshelf, and other sites, and probably every day I bookmark a few more things that I keep meaning to post. I've gotten a couple of nice notes asking where I've been, and I guess it's time to come back. Also, during the year I save up LEGO books to review as people are getting ready for Christmas, and want to get those posted. And so, back to blogging. Hopefully I won't have too many interruptions in the near future. I've certainly got a backlog of great creations to feature.

One great development in recent months is the Comic Bricks (great name, note the extra space) project inspired by Tommy Williamson of BrickNerd. He inspired a display at DesignerCon 2014 and an ongoing Flickr group to feature LEGO versions of comic book covers. I'll definitely look at individual creations in the coming weeks, but here's a group shot from DesignerCon. Presumably this will be a growing display that will show up at future AFOL and geek events.

Arkham Asylum: Relative Insanity

Julius No built Arkham Asylum: Relative Insanity, based on the game Batman: Arkham Asylum and the Escher print Relativity.

Dream of the Endless

The Deathly Halliwell built this amazing bust of the Sandman.

Avengers assemble!

Avengers assemble! by MOODSWIM

Doin' the things that a rhino can

Legohaulic put together this great rendition of Rhino vs Spider-Man for the new movie.

Because I'm Batman

Siercon and Coral built this Batman shadowbox as part of their current Iron Builder round.

HISHE

How It Should Have Ended finally gives us Superman's take on the LEGO Movie (with help from Brotherhood Workshop).

Nanananananana Batcave

Julius No built this 60s Batcave.

Batman

MortalSwordsman built this great Batman. BTW, check out the base. The joints are those new Mixels ball joints.

Nananananana ...

Svmax70623 shows off his Batpod.

The Amazing HKLUG

HKLUG, a LEGO Users Group in Hong Kong, has created an incredible collaborative display to correspond to the release of The Amazing Spider-Man II. It looks like this is currently on display in the Harbour City shopping mall in Hong Kong, so if you happen to be in the area, look it up. From the plot spoilers I've read, the trailer and other images, it looks like they've included a lot of stuff from the upcoming movie (I guess it comes out today in many parts of the world). If you are trying to stay spoiler-free (but, c'mon, if you are a comic book fan you pretty much know Spidey's story arc already), don't look too closely at these images.

JLA

Kristi McWii built the JLA.

Opening night

Batman takes on three of the main women in his life in Scratel's Opening night.

Star Spangled Man

Jared Chan also gave us the Star Spangled Man from the first Captain America movie.

Winter Soldier

Jared Chan made this for Captain America - the Winter Soldier. That SHIELD logo is amazing.

Thor

Evan Bacon, known for life-size sculptures (I've featured his Superman, Batman, and Iron Man before) has made an awesome Thor, which was even signed by Stan Lee when it was displayed at a Texas Comic Con event.